Food Safety for Dairy Processors

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Blue Bell Ice Cream is voluntarily recalling all of its products currently on the market made at all of its facilities including ice cream, frozen yogurt, sherbet and frozen snacks because they have the potential to be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes.

In March, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said that more than 99% of the raw milk samples it tested are free of “drug residues of concern.”

On Friday, Blue Bell Creameries, Brenham, Texas, said it is voluntarily suspending operations at its ice cream manufacturing plant in Broken Arrow, Okla. 

IBM Research and international food giant Mars Inc. in January established the Consortium for Sequencing the Food Supply Chain.

Powder-Solutions’ Magnattack Magnetic Mat controls the transfer of ferrous metal into sensitive areas, such as production rooms and offices.

Eriez PolyMag additives impart metal detectability, X-ray contrast and magnetic susceptibility into plastic moldings to detect plastic contamination in food products.

Bio-Rad’s Salmonella solutions provide fast, accurate and reliable results for food safety and environmental testing needs.

It was more tricks than treats for dairy processors in December. Or, to use a more seasonal analogy, Santa left a lump of coal in the Christmas stockings of cheese and ice cream makers.Here are some recent FDA recall.
 

A new General Requirements Standard provides benchmark hygienic design criteria to help meet the requirements and objectives of GFSI auditing schemes and regulatory programs under FSMA.

Romer Labs expanded its product portfolio for mycotoxin testing solutions with a new water-based rapid test for total flatoxin.